Rachel Weisz

Rachel Weisz (pronounced "vice") is a British actress who was born in London on March 7, 1971. Her Jewish father was born in Hungary, while her mother was born in Vienna, of Austrian, Jewish and one quarter Italian descent.

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Actress - London - March 7 - 1971 - Jewish - Hungary - Vienna - Austrian - Italian

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Weisz read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. She graduated with a ?2 marks off a first. During her college years she appeared in various student productions, co-founding a student drama group called Cambridge Talking Tongues, which went on to win a Guardian Student Drama Award at the Edinburgh Festival for an improvised piece called Slight Possession. Her breakthrough role was that of Gilda in Welsh director Sean Mathias's 1995 West End revival of Noël Coward's 1933 play Design for Living at the Gielgud Theatre.

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English - Trinity Hall - Cambridge - Guardian Student Drama Award - Edinburgh Festival - Sean Mathias - 1995 - West End - Noël Coward - 1933 - Design for Living - Gielgud Theatre

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Having already worked for television, Weisz started her cinema career in 1996 with Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. Since then she has starred in a number of films including The Mummy (1999), About a Boy (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003). In 2001 she returned to the stage to play Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre (also film).

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Television - 1996 - Bernardo Bertolucci - Stealing Beauty - The Mummy - 1999 - About a Boy - 2002 - Runaway Jury - 2003 - 2001 - Neil LaBute - The Shape of Things - Almeida Theatre

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